Favorite coach: Larry Robinson.Best coach ever: Adam Oates. Hands down. He’s hockey’s Bill Belichick. One of the only coaches I’ve seen where, whether you were on the first or fourth line, every day he would try to make you better. That never happens.Also an unreal coach: Slava Fetisov. Unreal knowledge of the game.

I would like to repeat, Scott Gomez called Adam Oates hockey’s Bill Belichick.

Gomez played under Adam Oates during the 2014-15 season while the Hall of Famer was the Devils’ “Co-Head Coach” along with Scott Stevens. The Devils finished under .500 and missed the playoffs for the third straight season that year.